This Island Earth
Sunday September 30th, 2018 with PeterB
Lots of Indigenous powered musics today. Including a full play of Jeremy Dutcher's Polaris Prize winner, traditional Laos. And lots more. Mostly newer.
Today's This Island Earth adventure takes us through Indigenous head-spaces, from Canada to around the world. Including a full play of Jeremy Dutcher's very deserved 2018 Polaris prize winner, the STUNNING "Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa".
Plus loads of sounds from other parts of the planet too. From classical to experimental to progressive. Almost all new works, or at least new-ish.
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| Slither (Theme) Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale - Breathing Under Water - Manhattan Records, 2007 |
| Starting off with an ear-freshener. And a wake up call! The live performance of Christos Hatzis' "Going Home Star" a few years back at NAC was EXTREMELY MOVING! We shall have to play this in full again some day soon… |
| Act 2, Scene 3, "They could not have possibly survived" (Part 2) Christos Hatzis / Tanya Tagaq / Steve Wood and The Northern Cree Singers / Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (Tadeusz Biernacki conductor) - Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation - Centrediscs / Canadian Music Centre, 2015 
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| Act 2, Scene 4, Morning Song Christos Hatzis / Tanya Tagaq / Steve Wood and The Northern Cree Singers / Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (Tadeusz Biernacki conductor) - Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation - Centrediscs / Canadian Music Centre, 2015
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| Jeremy Dutcher took home the 2018 Polaris prize, for his STUNNING "Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa" creation. It is wrapped around wax cylinder field recordings of the Wolastoqiyik people singing their traditional songs, dug up from the Canadian Museum of History's collection, circa early 1900s. The pieces are in the nearly killed-off Wolastoqiyik language, melded with contemporary classical and experimental music. JUST WOW!
Dutcher is a classically trained vocalist, pianist, and composer, as well as archeologist and musicologist. Hailing from the Tobique First Nation in what we now call New Brunswick. This is an important piece of work, on so many levels. So we will play the whole darned thing today. Get on your best headphones, and listen for the original wax field recordings so wonderfully integrated into the pieces. The real deal. Almost erased, but so thankfully starting to look like some signs of return. "Indigenous Renaissance" ... indeed!! We also encourage all to go watch the acceptance speech here. It is quite inspiring!! https://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/20380/jeremy-dutcher-winner-2018-polaris-music-prize |
| Mehcinut Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Essuwonike Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Eqpahak Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Ultestakon Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| 'kotuwossomikhal Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Sakomawit Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Oqiton Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Nipuwoltin Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Pomok naka Poktoinskwes Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Qonute Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| Koselwintuwakon Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa - Independent, 2018
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| More older traditional tunes, based on field recordings, this time from Laos, and the musical practices of the ethnic minorities living there. Another pair of interesting new releases, full of unusual (to our ears) sounds. A waist-deep dive we shall surely visit again. |
| Lantene (Moon) Women unknown - Music of Northern Laos - Akuphone, 2018 
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| White Hmong "Queej" unknown - Music of Northern Laos - Akuphone, 2018
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| Bit "Protect The Forest" unknown - Music of Northern Laos - Akuphone, 2018
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| Brao Lave Gongs unknown - Music of Southern Laos - Akuphone, 2018
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| Lao Lam Saravan unknown - Music of Southern Laos - Akuphone, 2018
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| Pacoh Song unknown - Music of Southern Laos - Akuphone, 2018
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| Yet another terrific new release. Yet another waist-deep dive. Really dig the concept of nation-less-ness here. And the wonderful fusions, collaborations, and positive changes that abound when we can encourage that to happen. |
| Zenneh / Khafif (featuring Hazem Shaheen) Out Of Nations - Quest - World Music Network / Riverboat, 2018
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| Out Of Nations Out Of Nations - Quest - World Music Network / Riverboat, 2018
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| Kamanga / Sellem (featuring Dina Wedidi) Out Of Nations - Quest - World Music Network / Riverboat, 2018
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| Feluka (featuring Islam Chipsy) Out Of Nations - Quest - World Music Network / Riverboat, 2018
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| Finishing off with just a few more haunting and aggressive sounds. To taunt your ears. For next time… |
| Live at Metro. June 2018 Two or The Dragon - ELECTROFRAMEWORK - Unexplained Sounds Group, 2018
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| Empty Resonant Shells [bonus digital track] Marc Codsi - Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music - Unexplained Sounds Group, 2018
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| Music For Arcs and Diameters Fadi Tabbal - Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music - Unexplained Sounds Group, 2018
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| Jerusalem Somma (Eraldo Bernocchi) - 23 Wheels Of Dharma - RareNoise Records, 2010 |
| Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 1 (Live in Toronto 2015) King Crimson - Live In Toronto 2015 - Disipline Global Mobile, 2016 |
| Exit stage left. Well, and probably make it hard for the Swing folks coming up next... ;^) |
| Discord Thomas Grenzebach - ELECTROFRAMEWORK - Unexplained Sounds Group, 2018
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1:12 PM, September 30th, 2018